Understanding Personality Can Play a Major Role in Workplace Safety
Tulsa, OK – June 28, 2010 – While traditional safety programs have long been a valuable asset to organizations interested in employee safety, understanding the role that individual personality plays in workplace safety can be instrumental in an even safer work environment. Organizations should take proactive steps to rethink their training initiatives to combine personality-based testing with tried-and-true safety methods to help create a culture of safe work practices.
Hogan Assessment Systems, a global personality assessment provider that helps companies select employees, develop leaders and identify talent, recently released its thought leadership article “Rethinking Employee Safety Training,” available for free download now, to help organizations understand how personality and behavior play a role in workplace safety.
As organizations begin to consider the habits and makeup of individual employees, traditional safety methods should not be pushed to the side; rather, companies should continue to develop them by incorporating a variety of strategies to increase workplace safety, among them:
- Enhancing protocol and procedures
- Addressing counterproductive work behaviors
- Reducing occupational stress and strain
- Instituting risk management initiatives
- Promoting safety values
Many companies might be challenged to help employees understand how their own personality plays a role in unsafe behavior. Download “Rethinking Employee Safety Training” now to help your own organization better understand how individual personality and behavior can affect workplace safety.
Even some members of your management team might be hesitant. “They’ll ask, ‘Why are you giving a personality assessment to a truck driver?’ ” says Ryan Ross, vice president of consulting for Hogan Assessment Systems. “Then you ask them to describe their best employees and they don’t talk about the employees’ math skills or their ability to balance a load or put on safety chains. They use terms like ‘hardworking,’ ‘safe,’ ‘reliable’ and ‘dependable.’ ‘Skilled’ is about 10 or 12 on the list. That’s when they start to understand that those are adjectives about behavior and that each employee’s behavior is driven by their personality.”
Download Hogan’s complimentary thought leadership article “Rethinking Employee Safety Training” to ensure your company and employees have all the necessary tools to make their place of work as safe as possible.
